"The January 11 attack on the TurkStream gas compressor station in the Krasnodar region stands out in a series of attacks carried out by Kiev. I would like to note that just before the attack, the Ukrainian president refused to extend the contract for gas transit to Europe via Ukraine," Russia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya said at a meeting of the UN Security Council on Ukraine.
"We have every reason to believe that the attack on the TurkStream infrastructure was carried out on the instructions of Washington and London, who are interested in making the EU dependent on expensive liquefied natural gas from the United States," Ambassador Vasily Nebenzya noted.
The Russian diplomat stressed that it is worth noting that the US and the UK "are the two countries that prevented the launch of an international investigation into the September 2022 terrorist attack on the Nord Stream pipeline".
"It can be said that the conclusion is clear," added the Russian Ambassador to the United Nations.
On January 13, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that on January 11, Ukraine used nine drones to attack a gas compressor station in the Krasnodar region, southern Russia, in an attempt to disrupt gas supplies via the TurkStream pipeline. However, after the attack, the compressor station continued to operate normally.
